Purcell Auctioneers: Truly Exceptional Sale Of The Library Of An Irish Gentleman and Other Very Important Clients to include the World Renowned First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle (July, 1493) and Other Incunabula , 112625, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 344 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201

A Tale of a Tub: written for the universal improvement of mankind

London 1734 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
202 Swift, Dean

an Essay Upon The Life, Writings, And Character, Of Dr. Jonathan Swift

London MDCCLV (1755) EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
203 SWIFT, Jonathan

A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind

London 1710 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 187.50
204

A Tale Of A Tub, Written For The Universal Improvement Of Mankind

London 1811 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
205 [SWIFT, Jonathan]

The Life and genuine Character of Doctor Swift. Written by himself

London 1733 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 725.00
206 HANDEL, George Frideric

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato. In Three parts. Set to Musick by Mr. Handel

Dublin 1741 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
207 [SWIFT, Jonathan]

An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the Author to make Verses on her, in the Heroick Style. Also a poem, occasion'd by reading Dr. Young's satires, called The Universal Passion

London 1734 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
208 Mason, W.

The Poems Of Mr. Gray. To which are added memoirs of his Life and Writings. In four volumes

London 1778 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
209

Co. Laois Interest: The Works Of The Author (Edward Young) Of The Night-Thoughts

London 1762 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 687.50
210

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq in Four Volumes

London 1721 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 75.00
211

Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne Montaigne

Paris 1725 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 187.50
212

The Poetical Works Of Erasmus Darwin, containing the Botanic Garden, in two parts, and the Temple of Nature

EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,187.50
213

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum delectu commentariorum

1758 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 375.00
214

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civill by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

London 1651 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,125.00
215 Senser Edmund

The Faerie Queen

1611 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,687.50
216

Pseudodoxia Epidemica:; Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths . . .

London 1686 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 100.00
217 PUTTOCK, Roger

Good and True Newes from Ireland

London 1642 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 600.00
218 Penrhyn Stanley, Arthur

Lectures On The History Of The Jewish Church

London 1865 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 106.25
219 James Hakewill Arch

A A Picturesque Tour of Italy

1820 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 625.00
220

A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age [HIGGINS, John (active 1570-1602)]

London 1610 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,687.50
221

INCUNABULA: Boethius's The Consolation Of Philosophy

1484 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 6,750.00
222

En tibi candide lector. P. Virgilii Maronis Aeneis accuratissime castigata cum commentariis...

Venice 1537 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,125.00
223 Quarles Francis

Emblemes

London 1709 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 425.00
224 HUMPHREYS, H. Noel

Fine Binding: The Book of Ruth, from the Holy Scriptures

London 1850 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 425.00
225

Critica Sacra: Or, Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon All the Greek Words of the New Testament, In order Alphabeticall

London 1646 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 162.50
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